Accordion India (Formerly Merilytics) - Manager - Data & Analytics Consulting

Company overview

Accordion is a global financial consulting and technology firm helping CFOs and their teams drive value creation. Rooted in private equity rigor and powered by data, analytics, and AI, we partner with companies across industries to turn insight into impact.

Accordion works at the intersection of Private Equity sponsors and portfolio companies management teams across every stage of the investment lifecycle. We provide hands-on, execution-oriented support, driving value through the office of the CFO by building data and analytics capabilities and identifying and implementing strategic work, rooted in data and analytics and AI.

Accordion is headquartered in New York City with 10 offices worldwide. Join us and make your mark on our company.

Data & Analytics (Accordion | Data & Analytics)

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) practice in India delivers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

D&A team members deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

Working at Accordion in India means joining 800+ analytics, data science, finance, and technology experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment to transform how portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion's futureby embracing a culture rooted in collaboration and a firm-wide commitment to building something great, together.

Join us and experience a better way to work!

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Role Overview:

The Business Manager at Accordion will directly project manage client delivery and provide analytics-oriented thought partnership to client. (S)he will directly manage project teams to facilitate delivery of high-quality analytics services and identify opportunities for deeper client engagements.

What You will do:

• Develop a strong project management discipline including project plan tracking, risk identification & mitigation, robust quality risk management and stakeholder alignment.
• Develop hands-on expertise in tools and technologies and if needed, can execute analysis models, build dashboards, provide business context to data engineers in data modelling etc. in complex client engagements.
• Regularly engage in peer level discussions with the C-Suite of client companies, to partner with them as a trusted analytics advisor.
• Develop a thorough understanding of client's business challenges to proactively recommend analyses that can deliver results for the client.
• Develop a robust knowledge of functional areas (Marketing, Finance, Pricing, Supply Chain etc.) across a diverse set of industries to provide relevant and actionable insights backed by robust analytics.
• Facilitate people development and proactively ensure that development agenda is fulfilled for the team.

Ideally, you have:

• Undergraduate degree (B.E/B.Tech.)
• MBA degree from top tier colleges is preferred.
• Should have 5+ years of full-time experience.
• Strong leadership & proactive communication to coordinate with the project team and other internal stakeholders.
• Ability to use business judgement and a structured approach towards solving complex problems.
• Experience in client-facing/professional services environment is a plus.
• Strong hard skills on analytics tools such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau and Excel is a plus.

Why Explore a Career at Accordion:

High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility.

Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

Other benefits for full-time employees:

• Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor's consultations, counsellors, etc
• Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits
• Team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations
• Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.
• Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.
• A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.